Another November and another NaNoWriMo has started. Unfortunately, I haven't started writing yet, though I have got at least the first three pages in my head I just need to do it.

I will be putting it up on the site so I can work on it anywhere I go, but it will be unpublished for now. If I feel really good about it I might send it off to be published. Maybe.

Essentially, if you post a story on the interweb, no publisher will look at it. It's technically already been published, therefore would not make any money in paper back.

Of course this is completely logical. So all you readers understand if I do not publish my story on my site.

Though my other option is to self-publish through Amazon or something similar. I am wondering how many people have published through these channels or know of anyone that has published through these channels and what the success rate was. Leave me comments if you are one of these few that have been a part of self-publishing online. I would really like to hear from you.

So, as for what I will be writing for my NaNoWriMo story for this year, the story is about a set of scientists who have created a time machine that is limited to backwards travel of up to 20 years. (A la Quantum Leap) The reasoning is to have the ability to change issues in time to see how it affects the world. Changing the world back... That is another story.

Sci-fi at its best!

So, I have come to a realization that writing fiction, good fiction is much like making a good game. Think about it, good fiction works have a learning phase, the challenge to the characters and then the goal or finish for the end. Games have to be made the same way, just as movies and engaging television series. Backstory, Build-up, Crest, then the Comedown. It's amazing how all media has these things in common.

Speaking of great works of media, Twilight is going to be out in theaters soon. >.< It's a bit depressing honestly and I am not going to link to it. It should instantly come up on Google if one wants to search for it.

It began so good, it was perfect for tweens and teens. A great, vampire-teen romance novel. Then the author had to interject her belief system like an Anvil falling in a Warner Brothers cartoon and then tried to live out her own fantasy or had rose-colored glasses glued to her face by raving fangirls and let them finish the last book.

I think that when writing a series of books, one has to look at the four steps I listed above for good works and apply that not only to each book but to the whole of a series. This began falling off in the Twilight series in book 3. By Breaking Dawn, I had already begun to feel as though my life was wasting away, much like it had when I was forced to sit an watch Thumb Wars in conjunction with Thumbtanic.

The biggest conflict was over in the third book, it could have easily ended there. But the last book was a big mass of ego boosting description that pinnacled at a fight that was never ever fought. No pinnacle, no challenge, no conflict. Compared to the other books that had big fights or chases and some great action, this one just lacked, in everything but flowery, narcissistic descriptive about how the author could hope she might look as a vampire. Or possibly how she thinks she looks now.

There's a term for this type of character mutilation and normally the original author is the victim for the most part, not the fans.